1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 1479
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 21, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to deductions from the compensation of county employees
1-9 for payment to a credit union.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 155.001, Local Government Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 155.001. DEDUCTIONS AUTHORIZED IN COUNTIES <WITH 20,000
1-14 OR MORE INHABITANTS>; PURPOSES. (a) The commissioners court, on
1-15 the request of a county employee, may authorize a payroll deduction
1-16 to be made from the employee's wages or salary for payment to a
1-17 credit union.
1-18 (b) In a county with a population of 20,000 or more
1-19 <inhabitants>, the commissioners court, on the request of a county
1-20 employee, may authorize a payroll deduction to be made from the
1-21 employee's wages or salary for:
1-22 (1) <payment to a credit union;>
1-23 <(2)> payment of membership dues in a labor union or a
1-24 bona fide employees association; or
1-25 (2) <(3)> payment of fees for parking in a
1-26 county-owned facility.
1-27 SECTION 2. The heading to Subchapter A, Chapter 155, Local
1-28 Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-29 SUBCHAPTER A. AUTHORIZED DEDUCTIONS FOR COUNTIES
1-30 <IN COUNTY WITH 20,000 OR MORE INHABITANTS>
1-31 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-37 passage, and it is so enacted.
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